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This paper estimates child penalties in labour-market-relevant cognitive skills, such as numeracy but also literacy and problem-solving competencies. We use international PIAAC data and adapt a pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section covering 29 countries. Numeracy scores, which are associated with the largest returns to skills and pronounced gender differences, decline by 0.11 standard deviations ...
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European Economic Review
184 (2026), 105245, 18 S.
| Jonas Jessen, Lavinia Kinne, Michele Battisti
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Objective: To develop a typology of relationship quality for nuclear and extended family relations of younger adults in the United States, accounting for variation across kinship types and racial/ethnic groups. Background: Existing typologies of family relationships primarily focus on nuclear ties, often neglecting relations with extended kin. Ties to extended kin are, however, central to many people's ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
(2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-06-30]
| Bettina Hünteler, Karsten Hank, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Thomas Leopold
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Generationengerechtigkeit ist zu einem zentralen Leitprinzip der Klimapolitik geworden. Sie verbindet normative, rechtliche und ökonomische Perspektiven zu einer fairen Verteilung von Freiheitsräumen, Lasten und Chancen zwischen heutigen und zukünftigen Generationen. Generationengerechtigkeit ist dabei kein moralisches Postulat, sondern ein verfassungsrechtlich verankertes und ökonomisch begründetes ...
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Wirtschaftsdienst
105 (2025), 11, S. 803-807
| Claudia Kemfert
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Social media has emerged as a pivotal platform for accessing news content today. While there appears to be a connection between news consumption on social media platforms and perceived knowledge of public affairs, little is known about the potential effect on specific issues like artificial intelligence (AI). To extend findings on people’s perceived knowledge of AI, how it relates to social media news ...
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Social Media + Society
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-12-01]
| Manuel Goyanes, Hui Min Lee, Rebecca Scheffauer, Homero Gil de Zúñiga
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Age and gender differences in narcissism have been studied often. However, considering the rich history of narcissism research accompanied by its diverging conceptualizations, little is known about age and gender differences across various narcissism measures. The present study investigated age and gender differences and their interactions across eight widely used narcissism instruments (i.e., Narcissistic ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
124 (2023), 6, S. 1277–1298
| Rebekka Weidmann, William J. Chopik, Robert A. Ackerman, Marc Allroggen, Emily C. Bianchi, Courtney Brecheen, W. Keith Campbell, Tanja M. Gerlach, Katharina Geukes, Emily Grijalva, Igor Grossmann, Christopher J. Hopwood, Roos Hutteman, Sara Konrath, Albrecht C. P. Küfner, Marius Leckelt, Joshua D. Miller, Lars Penke, Aaron L. Pincus, Karl-Heinz Renner, David Richter, Brent W. Roberts, Chris G. Sibley, Leonard J. Simms, Eunike Wetzel, Aidan G. C. Wright, Mitja D. Back
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Do the processes underlying destination-language acquisition differ between recently arrived refugees and other new immigrants? Based on a well-established model of language learning according to which language fluency is a function of efficiency, incentives, and exposure, this study addresses general processes of language learning as well as conditions specific to refugees. Longitudinal data on refugees ...
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
48 (2022), 5, S. 989–1012
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Cornelia Kristen, Christoph Spörlein
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Recent years have seen a growing number of studies investigating the accuracy of nonprobability online panels; however, response quality in nonprobability online panels has not yet received much attention. To fill this gap, we investigate response quality in a comprehensive study of seven nonprobability online panels and three probability-based online panels with identical fieldwork periods and questionnaires ...
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Sociological Methods & Research
52 (2023), 2, S. 879–908
| Carina Cornesse, Annelies G. Blom
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Questions on justice of earnings are regularly fielded in large-scale surveys but insights intothe role of response formats on measures of the justice of earnings are missing. This problem isillustrated by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which, in 2017, changed its question onthe justice of one’s own earnings from a binary response scale to an 11-point scale. Meanwhile, the shareof respondents ...
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Survey Methods : Insights from the Field
(2022), 10 S.
| Jule Adriaans, Philipp Eisnecker, Carsten Sauer, Peter Valet
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Background: Individuals who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are at increased risk for aging-related diseases and perform less well on tests of cognitive function. The weathering hypothesis proposes that these disparities in physical and cognitive health arise from an acceleration of biological processes of aging. Theories of how life adversity is biologically embedded identify epigenetic alterations, ...
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Clinical Epigenetics
15 (2023), 70, 9 S.
| L. Raffington, T. Schwaba, M. Aikins, David Richter, Gert G. Wagner, K. P. Harden, D. W. Belsky, E. M. Tucker-Drob
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While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...
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European Journal of Personality
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-12-04]
| Emilija Meier-Faust, Annelie Schulze, Yannick Martin, Annabell Daniel, Susanne Bergann
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Research has consistently shown that lower earnings for women and higher earnings for men are generally regarded as fair by both women and men. Previous research has focused on structural factors to explain this phenomenon, but has neglected proximate relationships at work. This study examines how the supervisors’ gender relates to employees’ justice attitudes toward the earnings of men and women. ...
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Socio-Economic Review
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-12-04]
| Jule Adriaans, Carsten Sauer, Anja Kirsch, Katharina Wrohlich
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A large percentage of workers in Europe perceive their earnings to be unfairly low. Such perceptions of unfairness can have far-reaching consequences, ranging from low satisfaction to poor health. To gain insight into the conditions that can attenuate or amplify these adverse consequences, comparative research on the role of country contexts in shaping responses to perceived unfairness is needed. Furthermore, ...
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European Sociological Review
39 (2023), 1, S. 118–131
| Jule Adriaans
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We develop a theory of postacquisition integration that distinguishes between one-way (acquirer-only) and two-way (mutual) effort strategies. We argue that the method of payment—cash versus shares—may serve as an ex ante commitment mechanism to a particular integration strategy, where cash deals align with unilateral effort, and share deals induce mutual engagement. Using transaction-level mergers ...
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Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
(2026), im Ersch. [2025-08-20]
| Albert Banal-Estañol, Joseph A. Clougherty, Jo Seldeslachts, Florian Szücs
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Research shows that concurrent and sequential self-administered mixed-mode designs both have advantages and disadvantages in terms of panel survey recruitment and maintenance. Since concurrent mixed-mode designs usually achieve higher initial response rates at lower bias than sequential mixed-mode designs, the former may be ideal for panel recruitment. However, concurrent designs produced high share ...
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Social Science Computer Review
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-11-29]
| Carina Cornesse, Julia Witton, Julian B. Axenfeld, Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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Comparisons are crucial in shaping evaluations of one’s own position. Following this notion, we investigated the role of historical, financial, partner, occupational, and regional pay referents in predicting the just gross hourly earnings in a representative sample of German workers. Looking at this broad range of pay referents, we find that higher reference earnings were generally associated with ...
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European Sociological Review
40 (2024), 1, S. 129–142
| Philipp Simon Eisnecker, Jule Adriaans
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This replication revisits an influential contribution on the intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes, which, based on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), reveals a positive correlation between parents' and children's attitudes. The authors of the original study argue that socialization in the family is important in the transmission process. The replication is motivated ...
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Social Science Research
119 (2024), 102982, 21 S.
| Christoph Spörlein, Cornelia Kristen, Regine Schmidt
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Divorce marks the legal endpoint of a marital union. While divorce is increasingly seen as a ‘clean break’, the past marital history of the couple may nevertheless shape their present conditions. In particular, there may be a legacy of a highly gendered division of labour during marriage that may affect the ex-spouses’ earning trajectories beyond the date of divorce. Using register data from the German ...
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Population Research and Policy Review
42 (2023), 23, 34 S.
| Daniel Brüggmann, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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While almost all charities rely on a set of donor appreciation strategies, their effectiveness for the success of fundraising campaigns is underresearched. Through two preregistered field studies conducted in collaboration with a leading German opera house (N = 10,000), we explore the significance of expressing gratitude and examine two different approaches to doing so. Our first study investigates ...
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Experimental Economics
28 (2025), 4, S. 900–909
| Maja Adena, Steffen Huck, Levent Neyse
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Spätestens seit der Einführung des Geschlechtseintrags „divers“ im Personenstandsrecht im Jahr 2018 ist die quantitativ-empirische Sozialforschung mit der Frage konfrontiert, wie Geschlecht in Befragungen erhoben werden soll. Dieser Beitrag setzt sich kritisch mit der aktuellen Erhebungspraxis auseinander und untersucht, wie Geschlecht in Befragungen konzeptionell trennscharf und empirisch valide erhoben ...
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Zeitschrift für Soziologie
53 (2024), 4, S. 364–386
| Lisa de Vries, Mirjam Fischer, David Kasprowski
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Germany’s energy transition relies on variable renewables and electricity use across sectors, and it needs to accelerate. We argue that consistent policy commitments to proven technologies, such as wind and solar power, heat pumps and electric cars are needed.
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Communications Earth & Environment
6 (2025), 859, 5 S.
| Wolf-Peter Schill, Adeline Guéret, Alexander Roth, Felix Schmidt